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Here’s the skinny on stripping and dipping in one sprawling Ontario cottage country region.

Georgian Bay municipalities and tourism businesses have listed 10 top sites to disrobe and celebrate the lazy, hazy days of summer.

“This is one of those things that is up to people’s discretion,” Meredith Armstrong, chair of Georgian Bay Destination Development Partnership (GBDDP), said Friday from Sudbury.

“Skinny-dipping is one of those classic Ontario experiences everyone does but nobody talks about,” she added.

The promotion, which “went viral” since its Thursday launch, is “a tongue-in-cheek twist on summer activities.”

Commissioned by the group’s 15 core town, county and business partner’s to go undercover and find the best locales, writer-photographer Colin Field “bared it all,” Armstrong said.

Field, editor of Mountain Life Magazine in Collingwood, regularly “focuses a lot on outdoor living and experiences,” she said.

His dip tips include avoiding arrest, shocking onlookers and — especially — being photographed in case the entire world gets to share the experience via a bare-all-tell-all Internet posting.

“What’s better than a cool dip in Georgian Bay on a hot summer day,” Field wrote. “The experience can be added to by subtracting one thing — a swimsuit.

“The ultimate in risqué behaviour, humans have enjoyed swimming in the buff since time immemorial,” Field says.

Then came a cheeky caution: Risking arrest is “half the fun.”

Whoa there, sunshine. Illegal?

Police were not consulted, but “I did look into it,” he said in an interview. “It’s debatable whether it’s illegal.”

Judges weigh what a naked person was doing in order to set fines for public nudity.

While Field says getting naked is fun in an appropriate, remote site, Tim Hortons drive-through staff “aren’t paid enough to see you naked mid-afternoon.”

It’s happened, more than once.

A Bracebridge judge in January convicted a man of public nudity at a Tims drive-through — despite the exhibitionist arguing Charter free expression rights. “Getting busted for public nudity is likely not something you want to experience,” Fields warns below his photo of a naked pal posing with one modestly-raised leg.

Before thinking about getting starkers to go jump in a lake, he suggests sleuthing first to avoid treacherous waves, rocks and prying eyes.

Here's the list of locations:

• The Grotto on the Bruce Peninsula.
• Nearby Indian Head.
• Killbear campsites.
• Awenda’s south beach.
• Western beach at Covered Portage Cove near Killarney — Field’s personal favourite area.
• Georgian Bay Islands National Park has 177 primitive campsites.
• Halfway Log Dump’s rocky shoreline.
• Secluded spots in French River Provincial Park.
• Secluded spots along Five Finger Rapids in the above park.
• Lion’s Head in the McKay’s Harbour camping area of Lion’s Head Provincial Nature Reserve.
Other alternatives recommended: Get naked after boating, kayaking, sailing, or paddle-boarding to a secluded beach, or at any one of the cottages in the 30,000 Islands near Parry Sound.
For more information, go online at: visitgeorgianbay.com; and gb.mountainlifemag.ca/2012/top-ten-skinny-dipping-spots-in-georgian-bay.